2016 MTV Movie Award Winners: Star Wars Wins Movie of the Year

Erik Anderson April 10, 2016

Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and its star Daisy Ridley, took home three MTV Movie Awards — **Star Wars: The Force Awakens took home three MTV Movie Awards last night, including Breakthrough Performance for its star, Daisy Ridley**

Although the show isn’t set to air until this evening, the winners of the 2016 MTV Movie Awards have been announced (presumably to court more appearances from said winners, a la The People’s Choice Awards) and if being the biggest movie of all time wasn’t enough Star Wars: The Force Awakens took home three wins, including Movie of the Year. Daisy Ridley, whose birthday is today, won the Breakthrough Performance award.

Deadpool, Pitch Perfect 2 took home a pair of trophies each and Leonardo DiCaprio added an MTV Award to his Oscar win for The Revenant.

The televised awards are tonight on MTV.

The FULL list of winners:

MOVIE OF THE YEAR
· Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Creed (Warner Bros.)
· Deadpool (20th Century Fox)
· Jurassic World (Universal Pictures)
· Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) (WINNER)
· Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)

TRUE STORY
· Concussion (Columbia Pictures)
· Joy (20th Century Fox)
· Steve Jobs (Universal Pictures)
· Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures) (WINNER)
· The Big Short (Paramount Pictures)
· The Revenant (20th Century Fox)

DOCUMENTARY
· Amy (A24) (WINNER)
· Cartel Land (The Orchard)
· He Named Me Malala (Fox Searchlight Pictures)
· The Hunting Ground (RADiUS-TWC)
· The Wolfpack (Magnolia Pictures)
· What Happened, Miss Simone? (Netflix)

BEST FEMALE PERFORMANCE
· Alicia Vikander – Ex Machina (A24)
· Anna Kendrick – Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal Pictures)
· Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.) (WINNER)
· Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Jennifer Lawrence – Joy (20th Century Fox)
· Morena Baccarin – Deadpool (20th Century Fox)

BEST MALE PERFORMANCE
· Chris Pratt – Jurassic World (Universal Pictures)
· Leonardo DiCaprio – The Revenant (20th Century Fox) (WINNER)
· Matt Damon – The Martian (20th Century Fox)
· Michael B. Jordan – Creed (Warner Bros.)
· Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool (20th Century Fox)
· Will Smith – Concussion (Columbia Pictures)

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
· Amy Schumer – Trainwreck (Universal Pictures)
· Brie Larson – Room (A24)
· Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) (WINNER)
· Dakota Johnson – Fifty Shades of Grey (Universal Pictures)
· John Boyega – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· O’Shea Jackson Jr. – Straight Outta Compton (Universal Pictures)

BEST COMEDIC PERFORMANCE
· Amy Schumer – Trainwreck (Universal Pictures)
· Kevin Hart – Ride Along 2 (Universal Pictures)
· Melissa McCarthy – Spy (20th Century Fox)
· Rebel Wilson – Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal Pictures)
· Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool (20th Century Fox) (WINNER)
· Will Ferrell – Get Hard (Warner Bros.)

BEST ACTION PERFORMANCE
· Chris Pratt – Jurassic World (Universal Pictures) (WINNER)
· Dwayne Johnson – San Andreas (Warner Bros.)
· Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Lionsgate)
· John Boyega – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool (20th Century Fox)
· Vin Diesel – Furious 7 (Universal Pictures)

BEST HERO
· Charlize Theron – Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.)
· Chris Evans – Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Daisy Ridley – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Dwayne Johnson – San Andreas (Warner Bros.)
· Jennifer Lawrence – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Lionsgate) (WINNER)
· Paul Rudd – Ant-Man (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

BEST VILLAIN
· Adam Driver – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) (WINNER)
· Ed Skrein – Deadpool (20th Century Fox)
· Hugh Keays-Byrne – Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.)
· James Spader – Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Samuel L. Jackson – Kingsman: The Secret Service (20th Century Fox)
· Tom Hardy – The Revenant (20th Century Fox)

BEST VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
· Amy Poehler – Inside Out (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) (WINNER)
· Andy Serkis – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Jack Black – Kung Fu Panda 3 (20th Century Fox)
· James Spader – Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Lupita Nyong’o – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Seth MacFarlane – Ted 2 (Universal Pictures)

ENSEMBLE CAST
· Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Furious 7 (Universal Pictures)
· Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal Pictures) (WINNER)
· Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (Lionsgate)
· Trainwreck (Universal Pictures)

BEST KISS
· Amy Schumer & Bill Hader – Trainwreck (Universal Pictures)
· Dakota Johnson & Jamie Dornan – Fifty Shades of Grey (Universal Pictures)
· Leslie Mann & Chris Hemsworth – Vacation (Warner Bros.)
· Margot Robbie & Will Smith – Focus (Warner Bros.)
· Morena Baccarin & Ryan Reynolds – Deadpool (20th Century Fox)
· Rebel Wilson & Adam DeVine – Pitch Perfect 2 (Universal Pictures) (WINNER)

BEST FIGHT
· Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) vs. Ajax (Ed Skrein) – Deadpool (20th Century Fox) (WINNER)
· Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) vs. The Bear – The Revenant (20th Century Fox)
· Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) vs. Max Rockatansky (Tom Hardy) – Mad Max: Fury Road (Warner Bros.)
· Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.) vs. Hulk (Mark Ruffalo) – Avengers: Age of Ultron (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Rey (Daisy Ridley) vs. Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)
· Susan Cooper (Melissa McCarthy) vs. Lia (Nargis Fakhri) – Spy (20th Century Fox)

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Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.